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Art & Posters

The Gallipoli campaign through art and posters

Recruitment poster: 'Get into khaki. Your comrades at Gallipoli are calling you. This is not the time for football and tennis matches. It is serious. Show that you realise this by enlisting at once.'

Recruitment poster: 'Get into khaki. Your comrades at Gallipoli are calling you. This is not the time for football and tennis matches. It is serious. Show that you realise this by enlisting at once.'

Library of Congress

A small sea-lion, representing Great Britain, with flippers impaled on points of Turkish crescent. The cartoon refers to the British defeat by Turkey in the Dardanelles campaign, 1915.

A small sea-lion, representing Great Britain, with flippers impaled on points of Turkish crescent. The cartoon refers to the British defeat by Turkey in the Dardanelles campaign, 1915.

Library of Congress

Two huge splashes in the sea where Turkish artillery shells have fallen on 8 May 1915. Beyond these is a Royal Navy warship with the steep-sided Gallipoli coastline in the background. Painted by Herbert Hillier.

Two huge splashes in the sea where Turkish artillery shells have fallen on 8 May 1915. Beyond these is a Royal Navy warship with the steep-sided Gallipoli coastline in the background. Painted by Herbert Hillier.

Imperial War Museum

A view of the balloon deck of HMS Manica with the kite balloon being inflated underneath a tarpaulin that is attached to the deck rails on the sides of the ship. By Herbert Hillier.

A view of the balloon deck of HMS Manica with the kite balloon being inflated underneath a tarpaulin that is attached to the deck rails on the sides of the ship. By Herbert Hillier.

Imperial War Museum

In the Mess Deck, Manica, 9.30pm, July 8th 1915: a sketch, by Herbert Hillier, of the interior of the mess deck of HMS Manica, with sailors sitting at long wooden benches.

In the Mess Deck, Manica, 9.30pm, July 8th 1915: a sketch, by Herbert Hillier, of the interior of the mess deck of HMS Manica, with sailors sitting at long wooden benches.

Imperial War Museum

After-Deck of 'Manica', Looking Towards Bridge, 10pm, July 25th 1915 (by Herbert Hillier): a view from a high position across the after-deck of the kite balloon ship HMS Manica towards the ship's bridge.

After-Deck of 'Manica', Looking Towards Bridge, 10pm, July 25th 1915 (by Herbert Hillier): a view from a high position across the after-deck of the kite balloon ship HMS Manica towards the ship's bridge.

Imperial War Museum

One of the landing places at Suvla bay - 'C' Beach and Lala Baba, showing high explosive shells bursting among the stores

One of the landing places at Suvla bay - 'C' Beach and Lala Baba, showing high explosive shells bursting among the stores

Illustrated London News [London, England], 27 Nov 1915

A view of ANZAC from the sea, looking from the south, showing the formidable cliffs which the troops scaled.

A view of ANZAC from the sea, looking from the south, showing the formidable cliffs which the troops scaled.

Illustrated London News [London, England], 27 Nov 1915

ANZAC from the sea. Another view of the famous bay with Turkish shells falling among trawlers lying off the landing place.

ANZAC from the sea. Another view of the famous bay with Turkish shells falling among trawlers lying off the landing place.

Illustrated London News [London, England], 27 Nov 1915

Showing Chocolate Hill (on the left) and the Sari Bair range in the distance. In the foreground, the Salt Lake over which the troops advanced after landing at Suvla Bay.

Showing Chocolate Hill (on the left) and the Sari Bair range in the distance. In the foreground, the Salt Lake over which the troops advanced after landing at Suvla Bay.

Illustrated London News [London, England], 27 Nov 1915

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